Putty for making ornamental moldings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM A. SNYDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PUTTY FOR MAKING ORNAMENTAL MOLDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,017, dated July 31, 1888.

Application filed January 9, I898. Serial No. 260,216.

To all w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SNYDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Putty for Making Ornamental Moldings, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the within-named ingredients and the method of incorporating them, as hereinafter set forth.

This putty is to be employedin facing wood in relief and the imprint is to be given by a roller having formed on its periphery the reverse connterpart of the imprint to be made on the putty, the putty being laid on the wood by hand ahead of the roller. The putty must be pliable to handle and stick to the wood, but not to the roller or hands, and it must be hard, but not brittle, when dry. A mixture of whiting, linseed-oil, glue, water,plaster-ofparis, and rosin are now used as component parts of such putty; but linseed-oil'does not prevent the putty from being adhesive to the imprint-roller and being carried around by it instead of being at all times laid on the wood. By a long series of experiments I have found that paraffine added to this compound either by reducing it with other oilssueh as lard-oil or cotton-seed oilor using it in the form of commercial paraffine-oil,the adhesiveness of the putty to the wood is suflicient, while the putty will not adhere to the metal (N0 speoim ens i.

roller nor to the hands. I have further found that spirits of turpentine can be used to thin the mixture without forming an adhesive substance with the rosin. As compared with the composition patented to Otto O. Kai-sch on November 29, 1881, I discard linseedoil and plaster-of-paris and use paraffiue-oil and turpentine. Add glue, twenty-eight pounds to twenty-five pints of water. Vhen the water is absorbed, add rosin, sixty pounds, and one and 0ne-half gallon of paraffine oil. Heat the mixture till thoroughly incorporated and separate in cakes for use. \Vhen wanted, take one of these cakes and knead into it so much whiting as will make a pliable putty by the addition of spirits of turpentine,and the putty is ready for use, and when laid itwill make a hard tough surface suitable forgilding or other styles of finish. Instead of paraffine-oil one part paraffine and four parts of lard-oil or eotton-seed oil may be used.

I claim and desire to secure by Lrtters Patent- A putty for making ornamental moldings, consisting of dissolved glue, rosin, and whiting, combined with paraffineoil and spirits of turpentine, as specified.

\VILLIAIWI A. SNYDER.

Witnesses:

G. L. CHAPIN, H. A. SMITH. 

